Comic Book Movie News Round-Up: Vin Diesel, The Boys, and The Wolverine

Three bits of comic book movie related items that just aren’t big enough, or substantial enough to warrant their own posts. So here they are, in no particular order of importance…

So, someone who frequents Vin Diesel’s Facebook page saw him post a picture of the Marvel superhero The Vision and immediately jumped to the conclusion that it’s entirely possible he’s hinting that he’ll be playing The Vision in Joss Whedon’s upcoming “The Avengers 2″. Here’s ComicBook.com really, really stretching it:

Vin Diesel (or whoever manages his Facebook page) recently posted two new profile pictures and a new cover photo to his official Facebook page. The two profile pictures are of the Marvel Comics character the Vision. One of the Vision profile pictures is in color and the other Vision profile picture is in black and white. The cover photo shows a close-up drawing of Vin Diesel’s eyes with the words “True Vision.”

There was no type of announcement to go along with the profile pictures, but the profile pictures are often of characters Vin Diesel plays in the movies. For example, the Vision profile picture has now been updated to a picture of The Iron Giant, who Vin Diesel voiced.

Yeah.

I can see Vin Diesel as a superhero, though. Dude practically plays a superhero in every one of his movies already anyhow. Mind as well just slap on the spandex and make it official.

In more substantial comic book movie news, Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova has officially joined the cast of James Mangold’s “The Wolverine”.

The actress, last seen in “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, will play Viper, the role originally offered to Jessica Biel. In the Marvel Comic book universe, Viper has a major affiliation with the supervillain group Hydra. No idea if Hydra will be showing their heads in “The Wolverine”, or if this is another incarnation of Viper.

Via Twitter, McKay updates that Paramount has picked up the property after Columbia Pictures gave up on it, and that he, along with the new studio, are “still developing” the movie version of the ultra violent comic book.

He should give it up. “The Boys” is never going to happen. And I’m not sure fans of the comic will like the version that makes it to the big screen. The only way you could make a movie that’s faithful to the original comics is if you go the indie route like Matthew Vaughn did with “Kick-Ass”, but that’s a tad expensive and risky, and “The Boys” isn’t exactly a cheap movie to make to begin with.

Below, guys covered in blood and brain matter is par for the course with “The Boys”: